Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"Free nations with different histories, economies, and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives"

Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publisher

"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations, and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States, was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"When people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters"

Edward F. Halifax, Statesman

"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale"

Jacques Ellul, Philosopher

"America has been another name for opportunity"

Frederick Jackson Turner, Historian

"Up to our own day, American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development"

Frederick Jackson Turner, Historian

"President Trump taught us how to defend our values"

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Politician

"I will not allow America's elections to be further corrupted by radical left-wing policies shoved down our throats"

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Politician

"It's absolutely wrong to see all of these large corporations folding into basically what the Democrats want, and that's kissing the ring"

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Politician

"We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism"

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Politician

"Democracy has the power to quickly spread. But its erosion can happen just as fast"

Ursula von der Leyen, Politician

"A truly independent Europe... free of fear of change, investing in our security, reaffirming our democratic values with concrete action"

Ursula von der Leyen, Politician

"The Constitution is not a suicide pact"

Richard Belzer, Comedian

"A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican, and should be heard"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit"

John Lindsay, Politician

"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense"

John C. Hawkes, Novelist

"I do not want the voice of the people shut out"

Huey Long, Politician

"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"U.S.A. is the speech of the people"

John Dos Passos, Novelist

"I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer, as the sun has in our ecosystem"

Michael Chabon, Author

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